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Arrival of J udson 


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ADONIRAM JUDSON 


JUDSON DAY 
JULY 13, 1913 


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ARRIVAL OF JUDSON IN BURMA 


1813. In a letter written shortly after this historic 
event, he tells the story as follows: 


‘““It became, therefore, a moral certainty that as 
soon as an order could be received at Madras we should be again 
arrested and ordered to England. Our only safety appeared to con- 
sist in escaping from Madras before such order should arrive. It 
may easily be conceived with what feelings I inquired the destina- 
tion of vessels in the Madras roads. I found none that would sail 
in season, but one bound to Rangoon. A mission to Rangoon we 
had been accustomed to regard with feelings of horror. Butit 
was now brought to a point. We must either venture there or be 
sent to Europe. All other paths were shut up; and thus situated, 
though dissuaded by all our friends at Madras, we commended 
ourselves to the care of God and embarked on the 22d of June. 
It was a crazy old vessel. The captain was the only person on 
board that could speak our language, and we had no other apart- 
ment than what was made by canvas. Our passage was very tedi- 
ous. Mrs. Judson was taken dangerously ill, and continued so 
until at one period I came to experience the awful sensation which 
necessarily resulted from the expectation of an immediate separa- 
tion from my beloved wife, the only remaining companion of my 
wanderings. About the same time, the captain being unable to 
make the Nicobar Island where it was intended to take in a cargo 
of cocoanuts, we were driven into a dangerous strait between the 
Little and Great Andamans, two savage coasts, where the captain 
had never been before, and where, if we had been cast ashore, we 
should according to all accounts have been killed and eaten by 
the natives. But as one evil is sometimes an antidote to another, 
so it happened with us. Our being driven into this dangerous but 
quiet channel brought immediate relief to the agitated and ex- 


hausted frame of Mrs. Judson, and conduced essentially to her 
recovery. And in the event we were safely conducted over the 
black rocks which we sometimes saw in the gulf below, and on the 
eastern side of the islands found favorable winds which gently 
wafted us forward to Rangoon. But on arriving here other trials 
awaited us. 

“We had never before seen a place where European influence 
had not contributed to smooth and soften the rough features of 
uncultivated nature. The prospect of Rangoon as we approached 
was quite disheartening. I went on shore just at night to take a 
view of the place and the mission house; but so dark, and cheerless 
and unpromising did all things appear that the evening of that day 
after my return to the ship we have marked as the most gloomy 
and distressing that we ever passed. Instead of rejoicing, as we 
ought to have done in having found a heathen land from which we 
were not immediately driven away, such were our weaknesses that 
we felt we had no portion left here below, and found consolation 
only in looking beyond our pilgrimage, which we tried to flatter 
ourselves would be short, to that peaceful region where the wicked 
cease from troubling and the weary are at rest. But if ever we 
commended ourselves sincerely and without reserve to the disposal 
of our Heavenly Father, it was on this evening. And after some 
recollection and prayer we experienced something of the presence 
of Him who cleaveth closer than a brother; something of that peace 
which our Saviour bequeathed to his followers — a legacy which 
we know from this experience endures when the fleeting pleasures 
and unsubstantial riches of the world are passed away. The next 
day Mrs. Judson was carried into the town, being unable to walk; 
and we found a home at the mission house though Mr. Carey was 
absent at Ava.” 


Faith of Our Fathers! 


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QO how our hearts beat high with joy Whene’er we hear that glo- rious word! 

How sweet would be their children’s fate, If they,likethem,could die for thee! 

And preach thee,too, as love knows how, By kind- ly words and vir - tuous life: 
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